The longest tennis match in history lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes at Wimbledon in 2010.

Ancient cave artists used perspective, shading, and motion in their paintings — sophisticated techniques rediscovered in the Renaissance.

The Popol Vuh is the Mayan creation myth — humanity was made from maize after earlier attempts from mud and wood failed.

The human voice is the only musical instrument capable of producing language simultaneously with music.

The world's largest drum, Tridandi, is over 13 feet in diameter and weighs 2,000 kg.

Roughly 10% of people are left-handed.

The Ramayana, one of Hinduism's great epics, tells of Prince Rama's quest to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.

Mozart began composing music at age five.

In Aboriginal Australian mythology, the Dreamtime is not a historical past but an ongoing spiritual dimension.